War and Remembrance (1988) s01e12 Episode Script
Part XII - 4.12.1945 - 8.7.1945
l'll take that.
lt's all right.
lt belongs to me.
lf you say so.
Thanks.
Pamela.
Pamela? Pamela.
Pamela, dear.
This is Pug's favorite reading lamp.
l'm going to a tea so l can't stay very long.
This is nice of you, Rhoda, but l can manage the unpacking myself.
Oh, it's no bother.
l hope you're not too uncomfortable setting up housekeeping in Hack's old apartment.
lt's a bit odd trading off this way.
Hack loved the house, and l The lawyers thought it would be a good way to settle up Pug's share, though l, uh l am surprised he accepted it.
Well, l think he just wanted to end the squabbling.
Have you heard from him lately? Yes, he expects to be relieved soon.
He said it's like the fourth quarter of a football game, when they start sending in the substitutes.
That sounds just like him.
Lord knows what part of the globe they'll ship him off to next.
He's requested duty here in Washington after we're married.
Washington.
Well, maybe an old dog can learn a new trick or 2.
Can't you see this room is crammed? Please take it somewhere else.
ln there would be fine.
l, uh l have all these boxes and things, uh ldentified by number on this sheet.
lt shouldn't take us any time at all.
Here's your copy.
Come along, dear.
Oh.
Now don't bother to open 7, 8, and 9.
They're books.
No matter how you arrange them, he'll growl.
Uh, 3, and, um4 winter civilian things.
That's sweaters, suits, overcoats and such.
They're mothballed.
Send them out to be cleaned in September, and they'll be fine.
Boy, could you move some of these things for us? We have got to get this cleared up.
Oh.
Oh, Pug had this cashmere jacket made in Hong Kong.
He thought he was being incredibly extravagant.
Now he hardly ever wears it.
Guilt, l think.
Don't let him fool you.
Under that exterior, he's as vain as a peacock.
Ohno.
No, Pamela, no.
Let's see, now where did l see those? Oh.
Here they are.
You always have to put the shoetrees in.
Now, Pug likes his shoes to be just so.
But would he take 5 seconds to put the shoetrees in? Never.
Not him.
Away from the navy, he's Somewhat of an absent-minded professor.
You'd never expect that of Pug Henry, would you? Uh Let's see, that leaves the box 1 5 Well, let's just get at it, shall we? We're just about done.
Do you need anything else? No, that will be all.
Thank you.
Well, it's, uh lt's difficult separating the herring from the backbone, as you might say.
There are some things Pug and l really share.
One of us will have to do without.
lt can't be helped.
Mementos, pictures, things like that.
Pug can have anything l've kept back.
l'll take anything he doesn't want.
l can't be fairer than that, can l? No.
Certainly not.
Well, let's dig in.
Oh.
The house we lived in Manila.
That's Pug tutoring Byron.
Briny was 12 then.
Oh, it's Madeline at her 7th birthday party.
There's the proud papa helping her blow out the candles.
He would spoil her rotten.
l had a really tough time deciding about this one, l can tell you.
Maybe, Maybe Pug found it too painful.
l don't know.
l love it.
l made it for him.
He never uttered a single word about it.
You'll find him a tough man to figure out sometimes.
Well, anyway, here it is.
He can have it if he wants it.
Rhoda, l'm sure he wouldn't want you to give up such things.
There's more.
Plenty more.
l have my share.
You accumulate lots in 30 years.
And you don't have to tell me anything about what l've given up.
Why don't we store the rest of this in the spare room? Where is it? Don't you know? No, l've never been here before.
Here, l'll, uh l'll help you with these, and then l'll be on my merry way.
A lovely kitchen.
Bet you found it filthy.
l did have to scrape and scrub some.
Bachelors, you know.
Men, my dear.
Still, there's a difference between army and navy.
l found that out.
The spare room.
My lord.
lt is really shabby in here.
Why in the world didn't you have Hack put on a fresh coat of paint? lt's simpler just to close it off.
l don't really need it.
No, of course you don't.
Hack and l are finding separate rooms very handy.
Rhoda, l don't understand something.
You said you'd never been here before.
l haven't.
Why not? Well, before Hack and l were married, l wouldn't have dreamed of coming to his bachelor lair.
And afterwards, l wanted no part of his memories here.
Do l have to draw you a picture? No.
Fine magnolia tree.
And these old apartment buildings really are the best.
Why do you suppose that flag is at half mast? ls it? Something to do with the war maybe.
l'll put on the radio.
Chlef Justlce Stone ls on the way to the Whlte House to admlnlster the oath of offlce to Vlce Presldent Harry Truman.
Mrs.
Eleanor Roosevelt ls flylng to warm sprlngs, Georgla, to accompany the Presldent's body on the journey back to the Capltal.
ls the President the Presldent's death to a stroke.
Mr.
Truman ls expected to lssue a full statement followlng hls swearlng ln.
Reactlons from around the world have been pourlng ln.
The Whlte House swltchboard has been flooded wlth calls, as a whole natlon searches for means to express lts grlef.
Franklln Delano Roosevelt's death brlngs to an end the longest term Roosevelt, Dead.
l mean, it's like the end of the world.
l knew him.
l--l sat next to him at dinner at the White House.
What a charmer he was.
You know what he said to me? He said, Rhoda not many men deserve a wife as beautiful as you But Pug does.
He was just being nice, you know.
But he looked at me as though he really meant it.
Oh, what about the war? Truman is a nobody.
l mean, it's--it's a nightmare.
lt's ghastly.
Hack said he left some booze here.
Yes, he did.
Lots.
You know what? Let's just have a good stiff drink of scotch, dear.
Then l just think l'll go home.
Franklln Delano Roosevelt ls dead.
A natlon and the whole of the free world ls plunged lnto mournlng.
Perhaps the most apt trlbute wlll be pald by the men who fought the great crusade under hls leadershlp, veterans of Montecasslno, the Solomons slot, the bulge, mldway, and lwo Jlma.
They wlll say, he was the commander ln chlef, not only of our armed forces, but of our whole generatlon.
Readyl Flrel Flrel Flrel As the Amerlcan Presldent ls lald to rest, Wlnston Churchlll rlses ln parllament.
What an enviable death was his.
He had brought his country through the worst of its perils and the heaviest of its toils.
Victory had cast its sure and steady beam upon him.
ln the days of peace, he had broadened and stabilized the foundations of American life and union.
ln war, he had raised the strength, the might, and glory of the great republic to a height never attained by any nation in history.
9 days later, Aprll 22, 1945, the Red Army, lncludlng elements of the flrst pollsh dlvlslon, smashes through the outer defenses of Berlln.
By 2 p.
m.
, the German capltal ls all but surrounded, and Adolf Hltler, the German warlord who once bestrode Europe from the Atlantlc to the Volga, had now been reduced to plottlng grand strategles to relleve the beleaguered capltal wlth dlvlslons, tank brlgades, even whole armles that exlst only ln hls fevered lmaglnatlon.
What is going on? We have been trying to reach the Steiner army since yesterday.
My patience is not limitless! The telephone lines, they keep breaking down.
lf l do not hear from Steiner within 1 5 minutes, somebody will be shot.
Lleutenant General Hans Krebs, Adolf Hltler's latest chlef of the general staff.
Well? Unfortunately, mein Fuhrer lt has been confirmed.
What has? There can be no Steiner attack.
Everybody out! Out! Out! Out! Keitel, Bormann, Krebs, Jodl! Stay! This is the end! Treachery, incompetence, cowardice! The end! The end! l shall kill myself! My decision is irrevocable! Do not say these words.
Betrayed! Double-crossed! Deceived! Surrounded by liars! l can l can no longer go on.
l shall die in Berlin! The war is lost.
Lost! Lost! Lost! Stupid, incompetent idiots! Lost.
lt's lost! You stupid idiots and fools! You can't call yourselves generals.
You're idiots! Nincompoops! Swine! lt's all Treachery! Lies! Corruption! Everybody is Against me! Mein Fuhrer, if you lose faith, then indeed all is lost.
Bormann is right, mein Fuhrer.
However, it is not too late if you will go immediately to Berchtesgaden.
From the alpine redoubt, you can direct the final defense of our country.
No.
Those who wish to go south may do so.
l shall remain here, in Berlin, and, When the time comes, l shall shoot myself.
My decision is irrevocable.
Mein Fuhrer, if we go, if you don't have your leadership staff with you, how can you direct the war from here? Goering will take over command down there.
Mein Fuhrer, no soldier will fight for him.
What do you mean, fight? There's precious little more fighting to be done.
Aprll 25, 1945.
At the town of Torgau, on the Elbe rlver, the Russlans and Amerlcans flnally meet ln the heart of Germany.
And flnally, the last of the Nazl death camps are overrun.
Dachau.
Sachsenhausen.
Schlossenburg.
Bergen-Belsen.
Mauthausen.
Ravensbruck.
Nordhausen.
But to the end, the Germans contlnued to try to destroy the evldence of thelr crlmes.
What the hell is this? Sergeant, take a squad and check it out.
Yes, sir.
Nolan, come on with me.
Yes, Sergeant.
Kelly, grab your men.
Come with me.
Put 2 on the engine and 2 on the other side.
You 2, on the engine.
You 2, on the other side.
You smell that? Let's get this thing open.
Oh, my god.
Look at this.
The damn krauts must have just gone off and left them.
See if these other cars have any people in them.
Check them out.
There's more in here.
Sergeant, look at this.
My god, Krebs, they've reached the Tiergarten, and l've seen artillery fire from positions along the river Spree.
Yes, and here we are squarely in the middle, as is our underground warrior.
What in heaven's name, Heinz? Why have l been sent for? Why does he do anything? l gather it's some sort of new assignment.
Anyway, l'm glad you're here.
Your sanity's badly needed.
These papers.
Yes.
We've been burning everything since the Goering and Himmler betrayals.
Betrayals? You didn't know? No, l've been returning to these headquarters in the north.
Goering wired an ultimatum from Salzburg, saying it was time for him to take over full control of them so that he might negotiate a peace with the Allies.
Of course it instantly got him arrested.
Fat boy ls kaput.
And Himmler? This one the Fuhrer found out about just tonight from the BBC.
Heinrich has been secretly negotiating for peace with the west on his own through the Swedes.
Now our leader's just wandering around down there, raving about the Jews.
Let us go down, lnto the asylum.
l do not understand, Hess.
Where is everyone? Gone.
Scattered.
Every man for himself.
Keitel and Jodl have already gone south.
We are among the last.
Frau Braun.
Frau Goebbels.
Dr.
Goebbels' children.
Goebbels moved in the whole family.
He's decided they will all die with the Fuhrer when the time comes.
All of them? Frau Braun, also? Oh, yes, to desengel.
The angel of death.
That's what enlisted men call her.
She came in a week ago.
She has decided to die with him, too.
Well, see you at our midnight briefing lf we are both alive.
l've been surrounded from the onset by traitors, incompetents, and liars.
l should have won this war.
l did not make a single mistake.
My plans wereflawless.
The army let me down.
The party let me down.
The German people let me down.
You, too, have lied to me.
Speer confessed the demolitions were never carried out! Well, such sabotage of my orders! lt's mutiny, and mutineers are shot! Mein Fuhrer, l did only what l believed to be right.
What l believed to be right for the German people.
l've pardoned Albert Speer because of his services to the Reich, and l'll spare you because contrary to the nature of your whole damned breed, you Have, on the whole, been Aloyal General.
l now appoint you operations officer for the final defense of the chancellery.
Yes, mein Fuhrer.
But As soldier to soldier.
l have a.
Last request to make as l give you this grave responsibility for the defense of the Zitadelle.
l Must, under no circumstances, be captured alive.
l know there is not much time left, but should you Feel the military situation to be such that we can no longer hold For more than 24 hours You are to report this to meat once.
This is A personal request.
lt is also an order.
l understand, mein Fuhrer.
My life is now in your hands.
Yes.
Of course.
And so, wlth the end almost upon hlm, Adolf Hltler beglns the flnal declslons of hls llfe.
To prevent a last treachery by the dupllcltous Hlmmler, he wlll have the cyanlde capsules left for hlm by the Relchsfuhrer tested on hls falthful dog Blondle.
[speaklng German.]
Then, shortly after mldnlght, he formally marrles hls mlstress Eva Braun.
[singing in German.]
Later that nlght, as he retlres to hls quarters to dlctate hls last wlll and testament, Adolf Hltler wlll state.
My wife and l choose to die in order to escape the shame of overthrow or capitulation.
Hmm.
Moreover We do not wish to fall into the hands of an enemy who requires a news spectacle organized by the Jews for the amusement of the hysterical masses.
Therefore lt is my wish--our wish-- to beburnt lmmediately on the spot where l have performed the greater part of my daily work in the service of my people.
lt wlll be 4 a.
m.
before the supreme warlord flnlshes hls polltlcal statement.
lt rambles from one subject to another.
He appolnts Admlral Durnltz to succeed hlm at the head of the new Relch government.
He pralses the common German soldler and agaln curses the general staff for havlng betrayed hlm.
But ln the end, he'll contlnue to hammer away at hls one guldlng obsesslon.
The Jews alone, bear the responsibility, Not only for the millions dead on the battlefield and in the bombed cities, But for their own fate, which they brought on themselves.
They started the war.
They caused misery and death to millions of Europe's Aryan peoples.
Therefore They had to pay.
Though my means were far more humane than they deserved, l demand all Germans, all nationalist socialist men.
To the last, he ls the fanatlcal, hate-fllled street agltator.
He ls proud that he has never weakened, and above all, he wlll conclude l enjoin the leaders of the nation and those under them to uphold the racial laws to their full extent.
And to oppose mercilessly the universal poisoner of all peoples, lnternational jewry! And so ln these last words, Adolf Hltler proudly conflrms that although he had many accompllces, lt was he hlmself who brought about the flnal solutlon.
The followlng day, Aprll 30th, 10 a.
m.
, advanced Russlan unlts penetrate to the street next to the chancellery, scant yards from the bunker.
The end of the thlrd Relch can now be counted ln hours.
Roehm.
Mein Fuhrer.
As previously instructed, l must now report that l am no longer able to guarantee that the battle-worn and exhausted troops who are still defending the Zitadelle Are able to hold on for a further 24 hours.
A final assault by a large number of tanks can be anticipated no later than dawn tomorow morning The first day of May.
You will no doubt appreciate, mein Fuhrer, the significance of this date for the Russian soldier.
Yes.
l know.
That is all.
Thank you.
[speaking German.]
[speaking German.]
You have escaped.
We are left behlnd.
A natlon, A natlon whlch must pay for your crlmes, And lt wlll pay, Heavlly.
Why? Why dld we do lt? Lay waste to a whole contlnent and all ln the name of a lunatlc, hysterlcal despot.
The questlon wlll, l lmaglne, be asked, For a thousand years.
Armln von Roon wlll be taken prlsoner and serve 21 years in prison.
Albert Speer will serve 21 years in prison.
Joseph Goebbels will commit suicide.
His wife will poison her 6 children and commit suicide.
Heinrich Himmler will be captured by the British and commit suicide.
Alfred Jodl and Wilhelm Keitel will be hanged.
Hermann Goering will escape hanging by committing suicide.
The chancellery will fall on May 1 st.
Berlin will capitulate 2 days later.
The final disposition of Adolf Hitler's charred remains is not certainly known to this day.
[knock.]
Mail's here.
Oh, thanks, Jonesy.
Dear Brlny, thls letter ls long overdue.
we'd better have lt out about dad and mom.
you're so mlslnformed, lt's pltlful.
we have an lncredlble father.
he'll go to the grave wlthout breathlng a word agalnst mom.
your resentment of the dlvorce and hls engagement to Pam Tudsbury ls plaln dumb.
you don't know certaln facts.
do you remember Fred Klrby, the blg, tall englneer you all met ln Berlln? that's all she'll take, Mr.
Philby.
Very well.
Should l go below and tell the skipper? No, thanks, l'll do it.
Besides, l want some coffee.
Captain.
Skipper, is everything all right? Everything's fine.
What's up? We're all finished fueling.
We're ready to go.
l'll be topside soon.
Oh, Tom.
Would you get this to the fleet post office in time for the next mainland mail? Pretty important, eh? Yeah, pretty important.
Do you, Pamela Tudsbury, take this man, Victor Henry, to be your lawfully wedded husband, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to have and to hold from this day forward until death do you part? l do.
The ring, Admiral Henry? l now pronounce you man and wife.
You may kiss the bride.
Admiral Henry, sir.
l was asked to deliver this from Admiral King's office.
Very well.
And congratulations, Admiral.
Mrs.
Henry.
Well, there's a memorable first.
The first time l've ever been called Mrs.
Henry.
l rather like it.
What is it? lt seems l'm wanted at the White House.
Admiral Victor Henry, Mr.
President.
WellAdmiral Henry.
Buzz me the minute Mr.
Burns arrives.
Yes, sir.
Thanks for coming, Henry.
My pleasure, Mr.
President.
l need a naval aide, Admiral.
Now, Harry Hopkins and Admiral Leahy have both recommended you.
Would you like the job? Very much, Mr.
President.
You're hired.
Well, that does our business.
Sit down, Admiral.
l wish all the transactions in this office were that simple.
lt's in the nature of things that the military and the President don't see eye-to-eye.
Let's get this straight.
Who will you work for, me or the navy? You're my Commanding Officer, sir.
Good enough.
lf l think you're wrong in a disagreement with the navy, l will tell you.
That's what l want.
Just remember that the military can be wrong, too.
Very wrong.
What's wrong with those Russians? You had duty there.
Why won't they stick to their agreements? ln my experience, they usually have.
ls that so? You're dead wrong.
Stalin agreed at Yalta to hold free elections in Poland.
He's reneging on the deal.
Churchill's up in arms, and so am l.
l told Molotov how l felt.
He said he'd never been talked to like that.
l said, ''keep your agreements, then.
'' [intercom buzzes.]
Yes.
Mr.
Burns is here.
Well, it's about time.
That's it.
Duty calls, Admiral.
l'm told you've just been married.
Yes, Mr.
President.
You'll want a few weeks for your honeymoon.
l'm ready to report for duty.
Well, very good.
The sooner, the better.
ls your bride a Washington lady? No, sir.
An English woman.
l look forward to meeting her.
Thanks, Mr.
President.
Well, was it worth delaying our honeymoon? Victor! He's putting me to work as his naval aide.
Oh, Victor! You'll be here in Washington, then.
He wants me to start immediately.
No honeymoon? l'm afraid not, not for a while, anyway.
ln that case, Victor Henry, take me home.
Take me home before your damn navy gets any more ideas.
Mmm.
My god.
l can't get used to seeing you like this.
You look 30.
l don't function like 30.
More? Yeah.
Good.
You know what this reminds me of? No, what? That meal you scavenged up after l flew over Berlin in '41 .
Steak, salad, chianti, and that wonderful bread you found.
Called yourself a London alley cat, if l recall.
Well, it's not every London alley cat that lands herself an American Admiral and naval aide to the President.
[telephone rings.]
Oh, damn! [ring.]
[ring.]
Hello.
Yes.
Yes, he is.
Just a minute.
lt's Rhoda.
Yes, Rho, what is it? Wait a minute.
Let me get a pencil.
Oh? No, no.
Never mind.
l'll take care of it from here.
Of course.
And l'll let you know.
What is it? Natalie Henry, German internee.
Hospitalized army facility airport.
Condition critical.
Malnutrition, typhus.
American Red Cross, Germany.
Yes.
This is Admiral Victor Henry, naval aide to President Truman.
l'd like to speak with the Surgeon General's office, please.
May 8, 1 945.
V-E day Victory in Europe.
After almost 5 years of war, the guns have flnally fallen sllent across half the globe.
Our gratitude to our splendid Allies.
Wlnston Churchlll's message to hls people ls a slmple one, almost the last before he falls from power.
The evildoers are now prostrate before us.
God bless you all.
This is your victory.
And we must now devote all our strength and resources to the completion of this great task, both at home and abroad.
Advance Britannia! Long live the cause of freedom.
God save the King.
Presldent Harry S.
Truman addresses the Amerlcan people.
This is a solemn, but glorious hour.
The flags of freedom fly all over Europe.
l only wish that Franklin D.
Roosevelt had lived to witness the day.
Now we must turn our efforts to the great tasks ahead.
First, to win the war in the Pacific and then, to win the peace.
Have one of these! Here's a tomato, man.
That's a while back.
Better than that slop we've been eating.
No--no, operator.
No, Mrs.
Harrison Peters.
Foxhole road.
Yeah, Peters.
Did you check information? Why don't you give your dad a call? l don't know where he's stationed.
No--no, just never mind, all right? Thank you.
Come on, skipper.
There's big doings at the officers' club tonight.
A homecoming wingding.
How about it? Captain? No, Tom, you go.
l've got some business to take care of.
Yes, sir.
He requests to see the Admiral.
Lieutenant Commander Henry.
Yes, sir.
Go on up, sir.
Thank you.
Henry, are telling me you're going over my head to chief of operations on a personal matter, claiming the highest urgency? Admiral, here it is.
You may want to court-martial me for desertion.
l'm going to see my wife and find my son if he's alive.
Please give me orders to enable me to do this.
lf l find them and the war's still on, l'll take an FM submarine into Tokyo bay if you want me to.
You have one hell of a nerve.
Whatever your personal hardship, l don't appreciate being told off.
Sorry, Admiral.
lf your combat record wasn't the most outstanding one in the fleet, l'd see you in the brig! Yes, sir.
Well, l'll ascribe your insubordination to combat fatigue.
Now, as it happens, l have a letter here from the CNO.
Where the devil is it? Ah, here it is.
The CNO wants a team of experienced skippers to inspect captured U-boats in Germany.
The preliminary reports Show these boats to be better than ours.
Hmm, embarrassingly so.
The only way to get the real dope is to go out with those kraut skippers and operate them.
You know any German, Henry? Yes, sir.
Some.
lnterested? Admiral, l'd be so grateful.
You have the operational background.
You'll have to qualify your relief on the FM sonar first.
Give him a week of runs in the dummy field on Molokai.
Sir? Thank you, and god bless you.
Say, Byron, uh.
Sir? How did your FM sonar really perform out there? Smooth as oil, sir.
Got us through those jap minefields, no sweat.
Greatest thing since canned beer.
[alarm sounds.]
what on earth.
Sorry, honey.
Duty calls.
Ohh ls this it? This is it.
Hello, sir.
Well, hello, Simon.
Good to see you.
Good to see you.
How's Madeline? Fine, sir.
How's it going? They expect the weather to break by 0530.
Oppenheimer and Fermium have been on the horn to meteorology all night.
They look pretty nervous.
Don't they, though? How about some coffee and a doughnut? Certainly.
Peters? Hi, Groves.
Coffee? You know Lieutenant Commander Anderson.
General.
Andersonyou're in fusing, aren't you? Yes, sir.
Tell me something.
ls that contraption going to go off? Oh, it'll go off, sir.
l only hope it'll never be used.
lf it works, it'll damn well be used.
lf we don't have to invade Hangzhou, it'll save half a million American lives.
And even more Japanese.
General, what's the latest? The weather's still lousy, Alby.
But l've given the word to go.
We're rollin'.
That's the best news l've heard all night.
Give us a minute.
Sam, tell the General what you told me.
General Peters.
Enrico.
That Dr.
Fermi.
There's a man with a strange sense of humor.
How's that? They say he's actually taking bets as to whether this thing sets the atmosphere on fire and incinerates the earth.
General, nobody knows exactly what this thing will do.
Not Oppenheimer, and not Fermi.
All observers kneel in the bunkers, back to the blast.
Close your eyes.
Cover your eyes with your hands.
Once you become aware of the blast flash, you may stand up and turn around.
Shield your eyes at all times with the protective glasses provided to you.
Zero minus 45 seconds.
Automatic firing sequence engaged and counting.
Zero minus 40 seconds.
Zero minus 35 seconds.
Zero minus 30 seconds.
Zero minus 25 seconds.
Zero minus 20 seconds.
Zero minus 1 5 seconds.
Zero minus 1 0 987 654 3 2 1 Zero.
''l am become death, the shatterer of worlds.
'' Hi.
l got your letter from Guam.
Good to see you, Briny.
lt's good to see you, dad.
Hello, Byron.
You know something? l'll be damned if l'm going to call you mama.
How about Pamela? That'll work.
ls there any news? She's in a convalescent hospital in Paris.
l guess she's on the mend.
Here.
From Natalie.
l'm a llttle better.
Berel came to Thereslenstadt and got Louls last July.
later l recelved thls plcture of hlm on a farm outslde of Prague.
he looks well, doesn't he? Avram says we'll flnd hlm.
l love you.
Natalle.
He looks wonderful, doesn't he? He certainly does.
Yeah.
This man Rabinowitz was in Paris with a Jewish rescue outfit.
His people were with the troops that found Natalie.
That's how he got involved.
They think the train was on the way to Buchenwald.
What about Aaron? Rabinowitz says he, Went to the gas.
l need a flight to Germany.
l have to report to Swinemunde before my leave starts.
l'm flying to Berlin tomorrow to get red-hot dope for the President at the Potsdam conference.
Maybe l could get you a ride.
Berlin's perfect if you can swing it.
l, uh, tried to reach mom several times from San Francisco.
No luck.
You know her.
She stays pretty busy.
ls she ok? From what l've seen, she's fine.
Dinner's at 6:00, Byron.
l'll be there.
No, thank you.
You didn't say how lunch went with your mother.
Oh, it was all right, l guess.
No.
She's drinking too much.
Yeah, she has her spells.
What do you call too much? 2 scotch and sodas before lunch, 2 bottles of wine with lunch, which she polished off herself.
That's too much.
l know she was tense about meeting you.
She told me so.
What are your plans? First, l'm going to see Natalie.
Then l'll talk to Rabinowitz about looking for Louis.
lf there's anything l can do to help while l'm over here, be sure and let me know.
l will.
lf he's alive, l'm going to find him.
lf it takes the rest of my life, l'll find him.
lt won't be easy, Byron.
Hundreds of thousand of homeless children are roaming Europe.
Some of them have become savages wolves.
Their parent were killed, and they learned to live by stealing.
There are gangs of them.
Where's the best place to start? Here.
Start in Paris.
The joint distribution committees, they are the best choice.
Then l would go to Geneva.
Big card files are being assembled on kid there.
The Red Cross, the world Jewish congress kids all over Europe.
Why not straight to Prague? He ought to turn up there.
l went to Prague.
Checked all the DP centers.
l went to that farmhouse where they took him in.
lt's burned down now.
Everything's overgrown and wild.
Only one farmer would talk.
He said he remember the little boy, but he doesn't know what happened to him.
So, it's, umit's tough.
Kids can endure a lot, and Louis is a strong kid with plenty of spirit.
Avram, How much do you know about what happened to Natalie? More than l have time to tell you now.
Here.
This is the affidavit she gave the war refugee board.
lt's pretty complete.
l'll read it later.
No, read it now.
Read it.
You'll understand better when you see her.
God.
Well, Byron.
So it's you.
Natalie.
You look like a movie star.
l look ghastly, don't l? No.
Not to me.
l should have gone with you in Marseilles.
Natalie, don't.
Avram saved my life you know.
You saved your own life.
l'll wait for you up there, Byron.
You can't leave.
You can't leave me.
[whispering.]
Why don't we sit down? Come on.
Your father wrote me lovely letters.
He's a fine man.
Did you get any of mine? No.
Not that l remember.
My memory's not too good.
Not yet.
Not real letters.
l dream a lot, you know.
l dreamed about you a lot.
l dreamed letters, too.
But your father's letters were real.
l know that.
l'm sorry your parents broke up.
Well, my dad's happy, and my mom's ok.
Oh, good.
Of course l knew Pamela in Paris.
Strange, isn't it? l suppose you know Slote's dead.
Yeah.
Pamela wrote me about him.
Dear heavens.
Poor old Slote's, a parachutist.
He can't have been very good at it, could he? l wasn't wrong to like him.
His heart was in the right place for a gentile.
l sensed that about him.
You Really do look so lmposing.
Were you in any great danger? You ask me that? At least when l was in danger, l could fight.
Oh, l tried to fight.
l tried.
l tried.
l finally received my new passport.
lt came yesterday.
Lord, that little book looked so good.
l'll bet it did.
l managed to keep my old one for a long, long time.
Right up until Auschwitz.
Do you believe that? That's where they took all my clothes away.
One of the girls in Canada probably found it.
She probably traded it for a nice big chunk of gold.
She probablyshe She probably She probably l love you, sweetheart.
Byron, l'm sorry.
l'm just not in good condition yet.
The nightmares.
Nightmares.
Every single night, Byron.
Every night.
And all the drugs.
l get needles night and day.
Night Shh.
Shh.
Shh.
Shh.
lt's all right.
lt's all right.
lt's all right.
Natalie, l'm going to start looking for Louis tomorrow.
Oh, thank god.
Thank god.
How much time have you got? About a month.
l'll see you as often as l can.
The main thing is you look for Louis.
He's alive.
l know he is.
Find him.
l will.
l swear, l will.
l love you too, Byron.
You're much Much older.
Oh.
Oh, dear, already? We haven't even talked about Aaron yet.
He was so brave, Byron.
The worse things got, the braver he was.
He wasn't at all the man we knew in Siena.
He became very religious.
l'm glad you're here.
Forgive me.
l'm in lousy shape.
l promise l'll be better next time.
Natalie.
Find Louis.
Find him.
Excuse me.
Attendez.
l want to check the following names Louis Henry Henry Louis Henry Jastrow Louis Jastrow Ok, where do you keep your files? The next room.
Thanks.
This one time Jewish quarter.
Now no Jewish.
Nyet.
One time old people home.
Louis? Heisst du Louis? Nein.
You say l've seen all the places in Prague where these kids are? [translating in Czech.]
he will take you back to your hotel.
Thank you.
lt's very sad about your son.
l hope you find him.
Not in Prague.
Nobody understands what l say.
l don't understand them.
You like me to come to your room? But why? l don't charge you.
l like Americans.
l like you, too, Katinka.
You're very pretty, and you speak English, thank god, but l don't think so.
[speaking Czech.]
Waiter! Waiter! He says something about homeless kids.
[speaking Czech.]
he says some children were taken to England.
How? Why? [speaking Czech.]
he say RAF Sends Czech volunteers back home to Prague.
Planes empty for going back, so some people in England arrange RAF To give children homes.
When did this happen? [translating in Czech.]
[speaking Czech.]
2 or 3 weeks ago.
Couple of planes.
Where in England? What else can you tell me? [translating in Czech.]
he know nothing more.
He say maybe RAF Tell you.
Thanks.
Do you speak English? Oh, yeah.
Little bit.
l'm looking for Mr.
Friedman.
End of the hall, around the corner.
Thanks.
Wiedersehen.
Mister! Yeah? You looking for a boy? l sure am.
Most of them look older than my son would be.
Yes, l know.
Does he look familiar? lt's very difficult to say.
ln the first group of 300.
There were only 1 7 under the age of 8.
Most of them boys, however.
Where could l see them? The youngest are at bulldog's bank in Essex.
They needed a small, quiet place.
Lady Clark donated her cottage there.
Most generous of her.
Mr.
Friedman, thank you very much.
l'm so very sorry.
Commander Henry.
Yes? A word of advice.
Your uniform.
The younger children many of them are still terrified of uniforms.
Thank you [rings doorbell.]
Well, we have 6 here.
We keep them in small groups, then they have much more individual attention.
As you can see, Commander Henry, none of the boys resembles your son.
l'm sorry.
What's that little boy doing? Oh, that's Danny Mensch.
He was separated from his parents at Theresienstadt.
He's playing at killing Germans.
Over and over again he plays it.
Hey, it's ok, Danny.
lt's ok now.
Bist du mein? He's asking are you his.
He asks everyone the same question.
No.
Nein.
The other smaller children are being cared for at Weir Courtney, Sir Benjamin Drake's estate in Surrey.
l'll phone ahead and tell them you're coming.
Thank you.
l, uh l wish there was some way l could help.
Those children are very lucky, Commander.
They're being loved and cared for.
Besides, they're alive.
Did you know that towards the end at Auschwitz the Germans didn't bother to gas many of the children first.
They just threw them alive into the furnaces.
As l said, our children are the very lucky ones.
Thank you.
Goodbye.
Goodbye.
Commander Henry, pleased to meet you.
Mrs.
Goldberger, thanks for seeing me.
You are looking for a child? A Jewish child? Yes.
His mother's Jewish.
She survived Theresienstadt and Auschwitz.
l, um, l have a picture.
His is him taken 1 1 /2 years ago.
Come.
[singing.]
do, re, mi, fa, so, la, ti No, wait.
Wait, wait.
[speaking German.]
lt's him.
Hello Avram.
Hello Natalie.
Well what's your important message? Byron telephoned me Yes.
Natalie.
Natalie he found him.
Hi.
Hi.
He looks fine.
Hello Lewis.
Avram how's Natalie? How did she take it? it was very emotional for her but she's fine today, and waiting for both of you.
good.
Let's go.
Yeah.
You've heard about all of that? sure.
l guess it's all over isn't it? Yes, l guess so.
That's quite a story about how you found him.
Very lucky.
Yeah, pure luck, or god.
Natalie says she's ready to go home now you've got him.
She thinks she'll recuperate better there.
Good.
But she won't go to Germany that l can tell you.
l don't expect her to.
Byron, she said more than once to me that if she ever found Lewis she would take him to Palestine.
Look, she doesn't know what she'll do, all right? First, she has to get well.
Would you go with her if she did? All l know is that once l'm demobilized l will never be separated from this kid.
He seems to be very quiet.
He doesn't talk.
What do you mean? Just that.
He doesn't smile and he doesn't talk.
He hasn't said a word to me yet.
l had a hell of a time getting him released.
They had him classified as psychologically disabled but he's fine.
l mean he understands anything you say.
He obeys, he just doesn't talk.
Lewis, [speaking German.]
.
Avram, let him be for now all right? Look they told me a lot of kids react this same way.
They said they're sending a group of these psychological cases off to Canada next week.
He's lucky l got there when l did.
God knows if we ever could have traced him there.
What's the story on him? There's not much.
From what l was able to gather he was picked up in the woods near Prague where the Germans took a lot of Jews and Czechs and shot them.
The bodies were just lying around.
That's where someone found him with the bodies.
Look Lewis.
There's momma.
Go on.
Lewis.
Go on sweetheart.
Go on.
Lewis? Lewis.
Lewis.
Lewis.
You came back.
You came back.
Byron, you can do anything can't you? [singing in Yiddish.]
lt's all right.
lt belongs to me.
lf you say so.
Thanks.
Pamela.
Pamela? Pamela.
Pamela, dear.
This is Pug's favorite reading lamp.
l'm going to a tea so l can't stay very long.
This is nice of you, Rhoda, but l can manage the unpacking myself.
Oh, it's no bother.
l hope you're not too uncomfortable setting up housekeeping in Hack's old apartment.
lt's a bit odd trading off this way.
Hack loved the house, and l The lawyers thought it would be a good way to settle up Pug's share, though l, uh l am surprised he accepted it.
Well, l think he just wanted to end the squabbling.
Have you heard from him lately? Yes, he expects to be relieved soon.
He said it's like the fourth quarter of a football game, when they start sending in the substitutes.
That sounds just like him.
Lord knows what part of the globe they'll ship him off to next.
He's requested duty here in Washington after we're married.
Washington.
Well, maybe an old dog can learn a new trick or 2.
Can't you see this room is crammed? Please take it somewhere else.
ln there would be fine.
l, uh l have all these boxes and things, uh ldentified by number on this sheet.
lt shouldn't take us any time at all.
Here's your copy.
Come along, dear.
Oh.
Now don't bother to open 7, 8, and 9.
They're books.
No matter how you arrange them, he'll growl.
Uh, 3, and, um4 winter civilian things.
That's sweaters, suits, overcoats and such.
They're mothballed.
Send them out to be cleaned in September, and they'll be fine.
Boy, could you move some of these things for us? We have got to get this cleared up.
Oh.
Oh, Pug had this cashmere jacket made in Hong Kong.
He thought he was being incredibly extravagant.
Now he hardly ever wears it.
Guilt, l think.
Don't let him fool you.
Under that exterior, he's as vain as a peacock.
Ohno.
No, Pamela, no.
Let's see, now where did l see those? Oh.
Here they are.
You always have to put the shoetrees in.
Now, Pug likes his shoes to be just so.
But would he take 5 seconds to put the shoetrees in? Never.
Not him.
Away from the navy, he's Somewhat of an absent-minded professor.
You'd never expect that of Pug Henry, would you? Uh Let's see, that leaves the box 1 5 Well, let's just get at it, shall we? We're just about done.
Do you need anything else? No, that will be all.
Thank you.
Well, it's, uh lt's difficult separating the herring from the backbone, as you might say.
There are some things Pug and l really share.
One of us will have to do without.
lt can't be helped.
Mementos, pictures, things like that.
Pug can have anything l've kept back.
l'll take anything he doesn't want.
l can't be fairer than that, can l? No.
Certainly not.
Well, let's dig in.
Oh.
The house we lived in Manila.
That's Pug tutoring Byron.
Briny was 12 then.
Oh, it's Madeline at her 7th birthday party.
There's the proud papa helping her blow out the candles.
He would spoil her rotten.
l had a really tough time deciding about this one, l can tell you.
Maybe, Maybe Pug found it too painful.
l don't know.
l love it.
l made it for him.
He never uttered a single word about it.
You'll find him a tough man to figure out sometimes.
Well, anyway, here it is.
He can have it if he wants it.
Rhoda, l'm sure he wouldn't want you to give up such things.
There's more.
Plenty more.
l have my share.
You accumulate lots in 30 years.
And you don't have to tell me anything about what l've given up.
Why don't we store the rest of this in the spare room? Where is it? Don't you know? No, l've never been here before.
Here, l'll, uh l'll help you with these, and then l'll be on my merry way.
A lovely kitchen.
Bet you found it filthy.
l did have to scrape and scrub some.
Bachelors, you know.
Men, my dear.
Still, there's a difference between army and navy.
l found that out.
The spare room.
My lord.
lt is really shabby in here.
Why in the world didn't you have Hack put on a fresh coat of paint? lt's simpler just to close it off.
l don't really need it.
No, of course you don't.
Hack and l are finding separate rooms very handy.
Rhoda, l don't understand something.
You said you'd never been here before.
l haven't.
Why not? Well, before Hack and l were married, l wouldn't have dreamed of coming to his bachelor lair.
And afterwards, l wanted no part of his memories here.
Do l have to draw you a picture? No.
Fine magnolia tree.
And these old apartment buildings really are the best.
Why do you suppose that flag is at half mast? ls it? Something to do with the war maybe.
l'll put on the radio.
Chlef Justlce Stone ls on the way to the Whlte House to admlnlster the oath of offlce to Vlce Presldent Harry Truman.
Mrs.
Eleanor Roosevelt ls flylng to warm sprlngs, Georgla, to accompany the Presldent's body on the journey back to the Capltal.
ls the President the Presldent's death to a stroke.
Mr.
Truman ls expected to lssue a full statement followlng hls swearlng ln.
Reactlons from around the world have been pourlng ln.
The Whlte House swltchboard has been flooded wlth calls, as a whole natlon searches for means to express lts grlef.
Franklln Delano Roosevelt's death brlngs to an end the longest term Roosevelt, Dead.
l mean, it's like the end of the world.
l knew him.
l--l sat next to him at dinner at the White House.
What a charmer he was.
You know what he said to me? He said, Rhoda not many men deserve a wife as beautiful as you But Pug does.
He was just being nice, you know.
But he looked at me as though he really meant it.
Oh, what about the war? Truman is a nobody.
l mean, it's--it's a nightmare.
lt's ghastly.
Hack said he left some booze here.
Yes, he did.
Lots.
You know what? Let's just have a good stiff drink of scotch, dear.
Then l just think l'll go home.
Franklln Delano Roosevelt ls dead.
A natlon and the whole of the free world ls plunged lnto mournlng.
Perhaps the most apt trlbute wlll be pald by the men who fought the great crusade under hls leadershlp, veterans of Montecasslno, the Solomons slot, the bulge, mldway, and lwo Jlma.
They wlll say, he was the commander ln chlef, not only of our armed forces, but of our whole generatlon.
Readyl Flrel Flrel Flrel As the Amerlcan Presldent ls lald to rest, Wlnston Churchlll rlses ln parllament.
What an enviable death was his.
He had brought his country through the worst of its perils and the heaviest of its toils.
Victory had cast its sure and steady beam upon him.
ln the days of peace, he had broadened and stabilized the foundations of American life and union.
ln war, he had raised the strength, the might, and glory of the great republic to a height never attained by any nation in history.
9 days later, Aprll 22, 1945, the Red Army, lncludlng elements of the flrst pollsh dlvlslon, smashes through the outer defenses of Berlln.
By 2 p.
m.
, the German capltal ls all but surrounded, and Adolf Hltler, the German warlord who once bestrode Europe from the Atlantlc to the Volga, had now been reduced to plottlng grand strategles to relleve the beleaguered capltal wlth dlvlslons, tank brlgades, even whole armles that exlst only ln hls fevered lmaglnatlon.
What is going on? We have been trying to reach the Steiner army since yesterday.
My patience is not limitless! The telephone lines, they keep breaking down.
lf l do not hear from Steiner within 1 5 minutes, somebody will be shot.
Lleutenant General Hans Krebs, Adolf Hltler's latest chlef of the general staff.
Well? Unfortunately, mein Fuhrer lt has been confirmed.
What has? There can be no Steiner attack.
Everybody out! Out! Out! Out! Keitel, Bormann, Krebs, Jodl! Stay! This is the end! Treachery, incompetence, cowardice! The end! The end! l shall kill myself! My decision is irrevocable! Do not say these words.
Betrayed! Double-crossed! Deceived! Surrounded by liars! l can l can no longer go on.
l shall die in Berlin! The war is lost.
Lost! Lost! Lost! Stupid, incompetent idiots! Lost.
lt's lost! You stupid idiots and fools! You can't call yourselves generals.
You're idiots! Nincompoops! Swine! lt's all Treachery! Lies! Corruption! Everybody is Against me! Mein Fuhrer, if you lose faith, then indeed all is lost.
Bormann is right, mein Fuhrer.
However, it is not too late if you will go immediately to Berchtesgaden.
From the alpine redoubt, you can direct the final defense of our country.
No.
Those who wish to go south may do so.
l shall remain here, in Berlin, and, When the time comes, l shall shoot myself.
My decision is irrevocable.
Mein Fuhrer, if we go, if you don't have your leadership staff with you, how can you direct the war from here? Goering will take over command down there.
Mein Fuhrer, no soldier will fight for him.
What do you mean, fight? There's precious little more fighting to be done.
Aprll 25, 1945.
At the town of Torgau, on the Elbe rlver, the Russlans and Amerlcans flnally meet ln the heart of Germany.
And flnally, the last of the Nazl death camps are overrun.
Dachau.
Sachsenhausen.
Schlossenburg.
Bergen-Belsen.
Mauthausen.
Ravensbruck.
Nordhausen.
But to the end, the Germans contlnued to try to destroy the evldence of thelr crlmes.
What the hell is this? Sergeant, take a squad and check it out.
Yes, sir.
Nolan, come on with me.
Yes, Sergeant.
Kelly, grab your men.
Come with me.
Put 2 on the engine and 2 on the other side.
You 2, on the engine.
You 2, on the other side.
You smell that? Let's get this thing open.
Oh, my god.
Look at this.
The damn krauts must have just gone off and left them.
See if these other cars have any people in them.
Check them out.
There's more in here.
Sergeant, look at this.
My god, Krebs, they've reached the Tiergarten, and l've seen artillery fire from positions along the river Spree.
Yes, and here we are squarely in the middle, as is our underground warrior.
What in heaven's name, Heinz? Why have l been sent for? Why does he do anything? l gather it's some sort of new assignment.
Anyway, l'm glad you're here.
Your sanity's badly needed.
These papers.
Yes.
We've been burning everything since the Goering and Himmler betrayals.
Betrayals? You didn't know? No, l've been returning to these headquarters in the north.
Goering wired an ultimatum from Salzburg, saying it was time for him to take over full control of them so that he might negotiate a peace with the Allies.
Of course it instantly got him arrested.
Fat boy ls kaput.
And Himmler? This one the Fuhrer found out about just tonight from the BBC.
Heinrich has been secretly negotiating for peace with the west on his own through the Swedes.
Now our leader's just wandering around down there, raving about the Jews.
Let us go down, lnto the asylum.
l do not understand, Hess.
Where is everyone? Gone.
Scattered.
Every man for himself.
Keitel and Jodl have already gone south.
We are among the last.
Frau Braun.
Frau Goebbels.
Dr.
Goebbels' children.
Goebbels moved in the whole family.
He's decided they will all die with the Fuhrer when the time comes.
All of them? Frau Braun, also? Oh, yes, to desengel.
The angel of death.
That's what enlisted men call her.
She came in a week ago.
She has decided to die with him, too.
Well, see you at our midnight briefing lf we are both alive.
l've been surrounded from the onset by traitors, incompetents, and liars.
l should have won this war.
l did not make a single mistake.
My plans wereflawless.
The army let me down.
The party let me down.
The German people let me down.
You, too, have lied to me.
Speer confessed the demolitions were never carried out! Well, such sabotage of my orders! lt's mutiny, and mutineers are shot! Mein Fuhrer, l did only what l believed to be right.
What l believed to be right for the German people.
l've pardoned Albert Speer because of his services to the Reich, and l'll spare you because contrary to the nature of your whole damned breed, you Have, on the whole, been Aloyal General.
l now appoint you operations officer for the final defense of the chancellery.
Yes, mein Fuhrer.
But As soldier to soldier.
l have a.
Last request to make as l give you this grave responsibility for the defense of the Zitadelle.
l Must, under no circumstances, be captured alive.
l know there is not much time left, but should you Feel the military situation to be such that we can no longer hold For more than 24 hours You are to report this to meat once.
This is A personal request.
lt is also an order.
l understand, mein Fuhrer.
My life is now in your hands.
Yes.
Of course.
And so, wlth the end almost upon hlm, Adolf Hltler beglns the flnal declslons of hls llfe.
To prevent a last treachery by the dupllcltous Hlmmler, he wlll have the cyanlde capsules left for hlm by the Relchsfuhrer tested on hls falthful dog Blondle.
[speaklng German.]
Then, shortly after mldnlght, he formally marrles hls mlstress Eva Braun.
[singing in German.]
Later that nlght, as he retlres to hls quarters to dlctate hls last wlll and testament, Adolf Hltler wlll state.
My wife and l choose to die in order to escape the shame of overthrow or capitulation.
Hmm.
Moreover We do not wish to fall into the hands of an enemy who requires a news spectacle organized by the Jews for the amusement of the hysterical masses.
Therefore lt is my wish--our wish-- to beburnt lmmediately on the spot where l have performed the greater part of my daily work in the service of my people.
lt wlll be 4 a.
m.
before the supreme warlord flnlshes hls polltlcal statement.
lt rambles from one subject to another.
He appolnts Admlral Durnltz to succeed hlm at the head of the new Relch government.
He pralses the common German soldler and agaln curses the general staff for havlng betrayed hlm.
But ln the end, he'll contlnue to hammer away at hls one guldlng obsesslon.
The Jews alone, bear the responsibility, Not only for the millions dead on the battlefield and in the bombed cities, But for their own fate, which they brought on themselves.
They started the war.
They caused misery and death to millions of Europe's Aryan peoples.
Therefore They had to pay.
Though my means were far more humane than they deserved, l demand all Germans, all nationalist socialist men.
To the last, he ls the fanatlcal, hate-fllled street agltator.
He ls proud that he has never weakened, and above all, he wlll conclude l enjoin the leaders of the nation and those under them to uphold the racial laws to their full extent.
And to oppose mercilessly the universal poisoner of all peoples, lnternational jewry! And so ln these last words, Adolf Hltler proudly conflrms that although he had many accompllces, lt was he hlmself who brought about the flnal solutlon.
The followlng day, Aprll 30th, 10 a.
m.
, advanced Russlan unlts penetrate to the street next to the chancellery, scant yards from the bunker.
The end of the thlrd Relch can now be counted ln hours.
Roehm.
Mein Fuhrer.
As previously instructed, l must now report that l am no longer able to guarantee that the battle-worn and exhausted troops who are still defending the Zitadelle Are able to hold on for a further 24 hours.
A final assault by a large number of tanks can be anticipated no later than dawn tomorow morning The first day of May.
You will no doubt appreciate, mein Fuhrer, the significance of this date for the Russian soldier.
Yes.
l know.
That is all.
Thank you.
[speaking German.]
[speaking German.]
You have escaped.
We are left behlnd.
A natlon, A natlon whlch must pay for your crlmes, And lt wlll pay, Heavlly.
Why? Why dld we do lt? Lay waste to a whole contlnent and all ln the name of a lunatlc, hysterlcal despot.
The questlon wlll, l lmaglne, be asked, For a thousand years.
Armln von Roon wlll be taken prlsoner and serve 21 years in prison.
Albert Speer will serve 21 years in prison.
Joseph Goebbels will commit suicide.
His wife will poison her 6 children and commit suicide.
Heinrich Himmler will be captured by the British and commit suicide.
Alfred Jodl and Wilhelm Keitel will be hanged.
Hermann Goering will escape hanging by committing suicide.
The chancellery will fall on May 1 st.
Berlin will capitulate 2 days later.
The final disposition of Adolf Hitler's charred remains is not certainly known to this day.
[knock.]
Mail's here.
Oh, thanks, Jonesy.
Dear Brlny, thls letter ls long overdue.
we'd better have lt out about dad and mom.
you're so mlslnformed, lt's pltlful.
we have an lncredlble father.
he'll go to the grave wlthout breathlng a word agalnst mom.
your resentment of the dlvorce and hls engagement to Pam Tudsbury ls plaln dumb.
you don't know certaln facts.
do you remember Fred Klrby, the blg, tall englneer you all met ln Berlln? that's all she'll take, Mr.
Philby.
Very well.
Should l go below and tell the skipper? No, thanks, l'll do it.
Besides, l want some coffee.
Captain.
Skipper, is everything all right? Everything's fine.
What's up? We're all finished fueling.
We're ready to go.
l'll be topside soon.
Oh, Tom.
Would you get this to the fleet post office in time for the next mainland mail? Pretty important, eh? Yeah, pretty important.
Do you, Pamela Tudsbury, take this man, Victor Henry, to be your lawfully wedded husband, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to have and to hold from this day forward until death do you part? l do.
The ring, Admiral Henry? l now pronounce you man and wife.
You may kiss the bride.
Admiral Henry, sir.
l was asked to deliver this from Admiral King's office.
Very well.
And congratulations, Admiral.
Mrs.
Henry.
Well, there's a memorable first.
The first time l've ever been called Mrs.
Henry.
l rather like it.
What is it? lt seems l'm wanted at the White House.
Admiral Victor Henry, Mr.
President.
WellAdmiral Henry.
Buzz me the minute Mr.
Burns arrives.
Yes, sir.
Thanks for coming, Henry.
My pleasure, Mr.
President.
l need a naval aide, Admiral.
Now, Harry Hopkins and Admiral Leahy have both recommended you.
Would you like the job? Very much, Mr.
President.
You're hired.
Well, that does our business.
Sit down, Admiral.
l wish all the transactions in this office were that simple.
lt's in the nature of things that the military and the President don't see eye-to-eye.
Let's get this straight.
Who will you work for, me or the navy? You're my Commanding Officer, sir.
Good enough.
lf l think you're wrong in a disagreement with the navy, l will tell you.
That's what l want.
Just remember that the military can be wrong, too.
Very wrong.
What's wrong with those Russians? You had duty there.
Why won't they stick to their agreements? ln my experience, they usually have.
ls that so? You're dead wrong.
Stalin agreed at Yalta to hold free elections in Poland.
He's reneging on the deal.
Churchill's up in arms, and so am l.
l told Molotov how l felt.
He said he'd never been talked to like that.
l said, ''keep your agreements, then.
'' [intercom buzzes.]
Yes.
Mr.
Burns is here.
Well, it's about time.
That's it.
Duty calls, Admiral.
l'm told you've just been married.
Yes, Mr.
President.
You'll want a few weeks for your honeymoon.
l'm ready to report for duty.
Well, very good.
The sooner, the better.
ls your bride a Washington lady? No, sir.
An English woman.
l look forward to meeting her.
Thanks, Mr.
President.
Well, was it worth delaying our honeymoon? Victor! He's putting me to work as his naval aide.
Oh, Victor! You'll be here in Washington, then.
He wants me to start immediately.
No honeymoon? l'm afraid not, not for a while, anyway.
ln that case, Victor Henry, take me home.
Take me home before your damn navy gets any more ideas.
Mmm.
My god.
l can't get used to seeing you like this.
You look 30.
l don't function like 30.
More? Yeah.
Good.
You know what this reminds me of? No, what? That meal you scavenged up after l flew over Berlin in '41 .
Steak, salad, chianti, and that wonderful bread you found.
Called yourself a London alley cat, if l recall.
Well, it's not every London alley cat that lands herself an American Admiral and naval aide to the President.
[telephone rings.]
Oh, damn! [ring.]
[ring.]
Hello.
Yes.
Yes, he is.
Just a minute.
lt's Rhoda.
Yes, Rho, what is it? Wait a minute.
Let me get a pencil.
Oh? No, no.
Never mind.
l'll take care of it from here.
Of course.
And l'll let you know.
What is it? Natalie Henry, German internee.
Hospitalized army facility airport.
Condition critical.
Malnutrition, typhus.
American Red Cross, Germany.
Yes.
This is Admiral Victor Henry, naval aide to President Truman.
l'd like to speak with the Surgeon General's office, please.
May 8, 1 945.
V-E day Victory in Europe.
After almost 5 years of war, the guns have flnally fallen sllent across half the globe.
Our gratitude to our splendid Allies.
Wlnston Churchlll's message to hls people ls a slmple one, almost the last before he falls from power.
The evildoers are now prostrate before us.
God bless you all.
This is your victory.
And we must now devote all our strength and resources to the completion of this great task, both at home and abroad.
Advance Britannia! Long live the cause of freedom.
God save the King.
Presldent Harry S.
Truman addresses the Amerlcan people.
This is a solemn, but glorious hour.
The flags of freedom fly all over Europe.
l only wish that Franklin D.
Roosevelt had lived to witness the day.
Now we must turn our efforts to the great tasks ahead.
First, to win the war in the Pacific and then, to win the peace.
Have one of these! Here's a tomato, man.
That's a while back.
Better than that slop we've been eating.
No--no, operator.
No, Mrs.
Harrison Peters.
Foxhole road.
Yeah, Peters.
Did you check information? Why don't you give your dad a call? l don't know where he's stationed.
No--no, just never mind, all right? Thank you.
Come on, skipper.
There's big doings at the officers' club tonight.
A homecoming wingding.
How about it? Captain? No, Tom, you go.
l've got some business to take care of.
Yes, sir.
He requests to see the Admiral.
Lieutenant Commander Henry.
Yes, sir.
Go on up, sir.
Thank you.
Henry, are telling me you're going over my head to chief of operations on a personal matter, claiming the highest urgency? Admiral, here it is.
You may want to court-martial me for desertion.
l'm going to see my wife and find my son if he's alive.
Please give me orders to enable me to do this.
lf l find them and the war's still on, l'll take an FM submarine into Tokyo bay if you want me to.
You have one hell of a nerve.
Whatever your personal hardship, l don't appreciate being told off.
Sorry, Admiral.
lf your combat record wasn't the most outstanding one in the fleet, l'd see you in the brig! Yes, sir.
Well, l'll ascribe your insubordination to combat fatigue.
Now, as it happens, l have a letter here from the CNO.
Where the devil is it? Ah, here it is.
The CNO wants a team of experienced skippers to inspect captured U-boats in Germany.
The preliminary reports Show these boats to be better than ours.
Hmm, embarrassingly so.
The only way to get the real dope is to go out with those kraut skippers and operate them.
You know any German, Henry? Yes, sir.
Some.
lnterested? Admiral, l'd be so grateful.
You have the operational background.
You'll have to qualify your relief on the FM sonar first.
Give him a week of runs in the dummy field on Molokai.
Sir? Thank you, and god bless you.
Say, Byron, uh.
Sir? How did your FM sonar really perform out there? Smooth as oil, sir.
Got us through those jap minefields, no sweat.
Greatest thing since canned beer.
[alarm sounds.]
what on earth.
Sorry, honey.
Duty calls.
Ohh ls this it? This is it.
Hello, sir.
Well, hello, Simon.
Good to see you.
Good to see you.
How's Madeline? Fine, sir.
How's it going? They expect the weather to break by 0530.
Oppenheimer and Fermium have been on the horn to meteorology all night.
They look pretty nervous.
Don't they, though? How about some coffee and a doughnut? Certainly.
Peters? Hi, Groves.
Coffee? You know Lieutenant Commander Anderson.
General.
Andersonyou're in fusing, aren't you? Yes, sir.
Tell me something.
ls that contraption going to go off? Oh, it'll go off, sir.
l only hope it'll never be used.
lf it works, it'll damn well be used.
lf we don't have to invade Hangzhou, it'll save half a million American lives.
And even more Japanese.
General, what's the latest? The weather's still lousy, Alby.
But l've given the word to go.
We're rollin'.
That's the best news l've heard all night.
Give us a minute.
Sam, tell the General what you told me.
General Peters.
Enrico.
That Dr.
Fermi.
There's a man with a strange sense of humor.
How's that? They say he's actually taking bets as to whether this thing sets the atmosphere on fire and incinerates the earth.
General, nobody knows exactly what this thing will do.
Not Oppenheimer, and not Fermi.
All observers kneel in the bunkers, back to the blast.
Close your eyes.
Cover your eyes with your hands.
Once you become aware of the blast flash, you may stand up and turn around.
Shield your eyes at all times with the protective glasses provided to you.
Zero minus 45 seconds.
Automatic firing sequence engaged and counting.
Zero minus 40 seconds.
Zero minus 35 seconds.
Zero minus 30 seconds.
Zero minus 25 seconds.
Zero minus 20 seconds.
Zero minus 1 5 seconds.
Zero minus 1 0 987 654 3 2 1 Zero.
''l am become death, the shatterer of worlds.
'' Hi.
l got your letter from Guam.
Good to see you, Briny.
lt's good to see you, dad.
Hello, Byron.
You know something? l'll be damned if l'm going to call you mama.
How about Pamela? That'll work.
ls there any news? She's in a convalescent hospital in Paris.
l guess she's on the mend.
Here.
From Natalie.
l'm a llttle better.
Berel came to Thereslenstadt and got Louls last July.
later l recelved thls plcture of hlm on a farm outslde of Prague.
he looks well, doesn't he? Avram says we'll flnd hlm.
l love you.
Natalle.
He looks wonderful, doesn't he? He certainly does.
Yeah.
This man Rabinowitz was in Paris with a Jewish rescue outfit.
His people were with the troops that found Natalie.
That's how he got involved.
They think the train was on the way to Buchenwald.
What about Aaron? Rabinowitz says he, Went to the gas.
l need a flight to Germany.
l have to report to Swinemunde before my leave starts.
l'm flying to Berlin tomorrow to get red-hot dope for the President at the Potsdam conference.
Maybe l could get you a ride.
Berlin's perfect if you can swing it.
l, uh, tried to reach mom several times from San Francisco.
No luck.
You know her.
She stays pretty busy.
ls she ok? From what l've seen, she's fine.
Dinner's at 6:00, Byron.
l'll be there.
No, thank you.
You didn't say how lunch went with your mother.
Oh, it was all right, l guess.
No.
She's drinking too much.
Yeah, she has her spells.
What do you call too much? 2 scotch and sodas before lunch, 2 bottles of wine with lunch, which she polished off herself.
That's too much.
l know she was tense about meeting you.
She told me so.
What are your plans? First, l'm going to see Natalie.
Then l'll talk to Rabinowitz about looking for Louis.
lf there's anything l can do to help while l'm over here, be sure and let me know.
l will.
lf he's alive, l'm going to find him.
lf it takes the rest of my life, l'll find him.
lt won't be easy, Byron.
Hundreds of thousand of homeless children are roaming Europe.
Some of them have become savages wolves.
Their parent were killed, and they learned to live by stealing.
There are gangs of them.
Where's the best place to start? Here.
Start in Paris.
The joint distribution committees, they are the best choice.
Then l would go to Geneva.
Big card files are being assembled on kid there.
The Red Cross, the world Jewish congress kids all over Europe.
Why not straight to Prague? He ought to turn up there.
l went to Prague.
Checked all the DP centers.
l went to that farmhouse where they took him in.
lt's burned down now.
Everything's overgrown and wild.
Only one farmer would talk.
He said he remember the little boy, but he doesn't know what happened to him.
So, it's, umit's tough.
Kids can endure a lot, and Louis is a strong kid with plenty of spirit.
Avram, How much do you know about what happened to Natalie? More than l have time to tell you now.
Here.
This is the affidavit she gave the war refugee board.
lt's pretty complete.
l'll read it later.
No, read it now.
Read it.
You'll understand better when you see her.
God.
Well, Byron.
So it's you.
Natalie.
You look like a movie star.
l look ghastly, don't l? No.
Not to me.
l should have gone with you in Marseilles.
Natalie, don't.
Avram saved my life you know.
You saved your own life.
l'll wait for you up there, Byron.
You can't leave.
You can't leave me.
[whispering.]
Why don't we sit down? Come on.
Your father wrote me lovely letters.
He's a fine man.
Did you get any of mine? No.
Not that l remember.
My memory's not too good.
Not yet.
Not real letters.
l dream a lot, you know.
l dreamed about you a lot.
l dreamed letters, too.
But your father's letters were real.
l know that.
l'm sorry your parents broke up.
Well, my dad's happy, and my mom's ok.
Oh, good.
Of course l knew Pamela in Paris.
Strange, isn't it? l suppose you know Slote's dead.
Yeah.
Pamela wrote me about him.
Dear heavens.
Poor old Slote's, a parachutist.
He can't have been very good at it, could he? l wasn't wrong to like him.
His heart was in the right place for a gentile.
l sensed that about him.
You Really do look so lmposing.
Were you in any great danger? You ask me that? At least when l was in danger, l could fight.
Oh, l tried to fight.
l tried.
l tried.
l finally received my new passport.
lt came yesterday.
Lord, that little book looked so good.
l'll bet it did.
l managed to keep my old one for a long, long time.
Right up until Auschwitz.
Do you believe that? That's where they took all my clothes away.
One of the girls in Canada probably found it.
She probably traded it for a nice big chunk of gold.
She probablyshe She probably She probably l love you, sweetheart.
Byron, l'm sorry.
l'm just not in good condition yet.
The nightmares.
Nightmares.
Every single night, Byron.
Every night.
And all the drugs.
l get needles night and day.
Night Shh.
Shh.
Shh.
Shh.
lt's all right.
lt's all right.
lt's all right.
Natalie, l'm going to start looking for Louis tomorrow.
Oh, thank god.
Thank god.
How much time have you got? About a month.
l'll see you as often as l can.
The main thing is you look for Louis.
He's alive.
l know he is.
Find him.
l will.
l swear, l will.
l love you too, Byron.
You're much Much older.
Oh.
Oh, dear, already? We haven't even talked about Aaron yet.
He was so brave, Byron.
The worse things got, the braver he was.
He wasn't at all the man we knew in Siena.
He became very religious.
l'm glad you're here.
Forgive me.
l'm in lousy shape.
l promise l'll be better next time.
Natalie.
Find Louis.
Find him.
Excuse me.
Attendez.
l want to check the following names Louis Henry Henry Louis Henry Jastrow Louis Jastrow Ok, where do you keep your files? The next room.
Thanks.
This one time Jewish quarter.
Now no Jewish.
Nyet.
One time old people home.
Louis? Heisst du Louis? Nein.
You say l've seen all the places in Prague where these kids are? [translating in Czech.]
he will take you back to your hotel.
Thank you.
lt's very sad about your son.
l hope you find him.
Not in Prague.
Nobody understands what l say.
l don't understand them.
You like me to come to your room? But why? l don't charge you.
l like Americans.
l like you, too, Katinka.
You're very pretty, and you speak English, thank god, but l don't think so.
[speaking Czech.]
Waiter! Waiter! He says something about homeless kids.
[speaking Czech.]
he says some children were taken to England.
How? Why? [speaking Czech.]
he say RAF Sends Czech volunteers back home to Prague.
Planes empty for going back, so some people in England arrange RAF To give children homes.
When did this happen? [translating in Czech.]
[speaking Czech.]
2 or 3 weeks ago.
Couple of planes.
Where in England? What else can you tell me? [translating in Czech.]
he know nothing more.
He say maybe RAF Tell you.
Thanks.
Do you speak English? Oh, yeah.
Little bit.
l'm looking for Mr.
Friedman.
End of the hall, around the corner.
Thanks.
Wiedersehen.
Mister! Yeah? You looking for a boy? l sure am.
Most of them look older than my son would be.
Yes, l know.
Does he look familiar? lt's very difficult to say.
ln the first group of 300.
There were only 1 7 under the age of 8.
Most of them boys, however.
Where could l see them? The youngest are at bulldog's bank in Essex.
They needed a small, quiet place.
Lady Clark donated her cottage there.
Most generous of her.
Mr.
Friedman, thank you very much.
l'm so very sorry.
Commander Henry.
Yes? A word of advice.
Your uniform.
The younger children many of them are still terrified of uniforms.
Thank you [rings doorbell.]
Well, we have 6 here.
We keep them in small groups, then they have much more individual attention.
As you can see, Commander Henry, none of the boys resembles your son.
l'm sorry.
What's that little boy doing? Oh, that's Danny Mensch.
He was separated from his parents at Theresienstadt.
He's playing at killing Germans.
Over and over again he plays it.
Hey, it's ok, Danny.
lt's ok now.
Bist du mein? He's asking are you his.
He asks everyone the same question.
No.
Nein.
The other smaller children are being cared for at Weir Courtney, Sir Benjamin Drake's estate in Surrey.
l'll phone ahead and tell them you're coming.
Thank you.
l, uh l wish there was some way l could help.
Those children are very lucky, Commander.
They're being loved and cared for.
Besides, they're alive.
Did you know that towards the end at Auschwitz the Germans didn't bother to gas many of the children first.
They just threw them alive into the furnaces.
As l said, our children are the very lucky ones.
Thank you.
Goodbye.
Goodbye.
Commander Henry, pleased to meet you.
Mrs.
Goldberger, thanks for seeing me.
You are looking for a child? A Jewish child? Yes.
His mother's Jewish.
She survived Theresienstadt and Auschwitz.
l, um, l have a picture.
His is him taken 1 1 /2 years ago.
Come.
[singing.]
do, re, mi, fa, so, la, ti No, wait.
Wait, wait.
[speaking German.]
lt's him.
Hello Avram.
Hello Natalie.
Well what's your important message? Byron telephoned me Yes.
Natalie.
Natalie he found him.
Hi.
Hi.
He looks fine.
Hello Lewis.
Avram how's Natalie? How did she take it? it was very emotional for her but she's fine today, and waiting for both of you.
good.
Let's go.
Yeah.
You've heard about all of that? sure.
l guess it's all over isn't it? Yes, l guess so.
That's quite a story about how you found him.
Very lucky.
Yeah, pure luck, or god.
Natalie says she's ready to go home now you've got him.
She thinks she'll recuperate better there.
Good.
But she won't go to Germany that l can tell you.
l don't expect her to.
Byron, she said more than once to me that if she ever found Lewis she would take him to Palestine.
Look, she doesn't know what she'll do, all right? First, she has to get well.
Would you go with her if she did? All l know is that once l'm demobilized l will never be separated from this kid.
He seems to be very quiet.
He doesn't talk.
What do you mean? Just that.
He doesn't smile and he doesn't talk.
He hasn't said a word to me yet.
l had a hell of a time getting him released.
They had him classified as psychologically disabled but he's fine.
l mean he understands anything you say.
He obeys, he just doesn't talk.
Lewis, [speaking German.]
.
Avram, let him be for now all right? Look they told me a lot of kids react this same way.
They said they're sending a group of these psychological cases off to Canada next week.
He's lucky l got there when l did.
God knows if we ever could have traced him there.
What's the story on him? There's not much.
From what l was able to gather he was picked up in the woods near Prague where the Germans took a lot of Jews and Czechs and shot them.
The bodies were just lying around.
That's where someone found him with the bodies.
Look Lewis.
There's momma.
Go on.
Lewis.
Go on sweetheart.
Go on.
Lewis? Lewis.
Lewis.
Lewis.
You came back.
You came back.
Byron, you can do anything can't you? [singing in Yiddish.]